On October 8, 2013, the University of Calgary allowed SPHR bring in guest speaker Miko Peled who spent the hour defaming Jews and Israel. The event was also a fundraiser for the "Disappearing Palestine" bus adverts defamation campaign, which has been banned where they were initially submitted in Calgary and Toronto, for "inaccuracies".
SPHR took footage of Peled's talk and promised the crowd it would be posted. To this day SPHR has not released the footage. Some of the statements made on the University of Calgary campus that day by Peled:
When someone asked a question that challenged Peled's thinking, he would yell out "fool" and "you uneducated racist". Below is a pamphlet that was disseminated at the event, revealing Peled's hateful mistruths (click on title for PDF).
SPHR took footage of Peled's talk and promised the crowd it would be posted. To this day SPHR has not released the footage. Some of the statements made on the University of Calgary campus that day by Peled:
- Israel puts feces in the drinking water of the Palestinians
- If you support Israel you are a disgusting racist bigot
- The Israel Defense Forces is the most organized terrorist organization in the world
- Israel has engaged in a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide since 1947
When someone asked a question that challenged Peled's thinking, he would yell out "fool" and "you uneducated racist". Below is a pamphlet that was disseminated at the event, revealing Peled's hateful mistruths (click on title for PDF).
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